Episode 68: RIP Ozzy

In this heartfelt conversation, Michael and Sebastian reflect on the life and legacy of Ozzy Osbourne following his passing. They discuss his profound impact on the music world, particularly in heavy metal, and share personal anecdotes about their experiences with his music. The conversation touches on themes of life, death, and the community within the rock and metal genres, ultimately celebrating Ozzy's contributions and the memories he leaves behind.

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Transcript

Michael (00:00)
Good evening and welcome back to a very somber mandatory music tonight. guess earlier today, it's pretty common news now that we lost Ozzy, Mr. Ozzy Osbourne, John Michael Osbourne has left the planet and he, he has, yeah, he's at peace. He's yeah, he's hanging with Randy again. You know, they're playing crazy train up in the, the guitar, the musicians bar up there, but,

Sebastian (00:11)
He has shed his mortal coil this morning or I guess evening in England, but yeah.

Yes.

Michael (00:28)
We just wanted to come on and sort of, I guess, pontificate a bit and remember Ozzy and cause he's been a huge part of our lives. Like, especially musically, like I know for, I could probably speak for both of us. he is the central voice that is sort of like between him and Hetfield. It's kind of like, they're the two voices of rock, especially heavy metal.

Sebastian (00:46)
Yeah.

Like

Ozzy and Black Sabbath have been such an integral part of my upbringing in terms of getting into music, playing guitar, listening to metal. Those were some of the first bands and artists I remember listening to among Iron Maiden and Metallica and dancing, you know, but Black Sabbath Ozzy was so iconic in the eighties and nineties. So yeah.

Michael (01:05)
Yep. Sure.

Yeah. Yep.

Like he was around our, I know like, I know I'm like when I discovered guitar and the same when you probably you did, you found paranoid and iron man and war pigs and.

Sebastian (01:23)
Pretty sure Paranoid

was the first black Sabbath song I ever learned how to play. At the age of 13.

Michael (01:27)
See, there you go. And it's just, it's amazing.

Like we were just talking before we hit the record button. Like I'm actually more pumped than I thought I'd be. We all knew this was coming. Like I kind of figured after this show from a couple of weeks ago that, you know, this is the big send off. This might be, he can finally just let go and just be at peace. And I guess he did, but.

Sebastian (01:35)
Me too, yeah.

Yet,

you got to kind of wonder though, as well, if he knew that it was way shorter than people realized at the concert. And so maybe that's why it was so rushed to put it together as quickly as possible, obviously. But the other thing too is, you know, he was holding on to something, he wanted to do this final concert. And then after the concert happened, I

just believe in a psyche, everything is like, well, I've accomplished it. And now it's like, there's nothing left to hang on to you. So I can just let go. And then when you're in that mindset, I think there's the body and the, you just, you just go, right? So.

Michael (02:22)
Let go.

Yeah, without a

doubt, without a doubt. I want to quote, I want to pull up the quote from Mike McCready from Pearl Jam, cause it kind of, um, really just bear with me. It's right. It's the last person you think of putting out a post that I could really relate with. Um, now I'm not going to be able to find it because I'm, uh, I'm a professional like that. Um, yeah.

Sebastian (02:41)
Hmm. That's interesting. Cause I w wouldn't have even thought of him. Make me greedy. Yeah.

That's fine.

Michael (02:57)
Just talk for a minute.

Sebastian (02:58)
There is a fascinating thing. So, okay, so a lot of people had this issue with, I'll say this point first, a lot of people had an issue with Kelly being proposed to after the concert, because they felt like it was taking away from Ozzy's thing. But with him passing today, what is it? It's what 15 days or 16 days after the concert, it actually makes sense.

now why Sid Wilson proposed at the end of the concert because they knew his time was very short. So he wanted, they wanted Ozzy there for the proposal. So I hope that people are okay with what happened after the concert. And they didn't do it during the concert. They did it in private after the concert. Obviously it was videotaped and whatever. that having that awareness now today that him passing today makes sense why they did it after the concert because they wanted him to participate in that ceremony. Right. So

Michael (03:26)
Yeah. Yeah.

pro- absolutely.

Yeah. Sure.

Yeah, cause he, well, that's the thing, right? Cause they knew

he wasn't going to be there for their wedding. So this is the closest thing they could do unless they had a, you know, a pop-up wedding, but I don't think they. Sure.

Sebastian (03:54)
Yeah, so you might, yeah.

I have a question for you, Mike.

And this was brought actually brought up to me by my partner. And she because when I shared the news to her this morning and she asked me, was it assisted?

Michael (04:11)
Hmm.

Sebastian (04:12)
because his health was deteriorating. Because, you know, the statement was he passed peacefully amongst friends and family. So because they knew that he was just getting to such a degenerated state that living comfortably was no longer an option. So because I know that's a polarizing topic, which we don't have to get into. But that's just something to think about, too, right? Like, was it assisted or was it natural? Like or

Michael (04:20)
family. Maybe.

Wiki

Well, we can a bit.

Sebastian (04:40)
just the natural way of things.

Michael (04:43)
Usually, I think when they say, or you're surrounded by your friends and family either time was very short and they all had to gather. Cause okay. Doctors are like, got, you got, you got a day to get this together or he decided to do assisted, which personally for me, I don't have an issue with like he couldn't walk like he, what kind of life realistically, right? You're he's almost bedridden.

Sebastian (05:05)
Yeah.

Michael (05:08)
poor guy, couldn't move, couldn't do anything. to go peacefully like that, like we have, you know, family friends that have done the assisted thing because they were, you know, much worse off. Yeah. They were in need of it because yeah, they were in much worse shape than Ozzy was. But

Sebastian (05:19)
made medical assistance in dying.

It's a polarizing topic too because some people like there's a place for it for sure and I've known people that have gone through that or grandparents of people that have gone through that and and it's something that the parent the grandparent desperately wanted. So for that I believe it but also there's the other side of that is like you get unsavory people that just want to not take care of you anymore.

Michael (05:33)
Mm-hmm.

Sebastian (05:51)
Right? So I'm not saying this is happening with Aussie at all, but you know, it's just, it's just a polarizing topic. So.

Michael (05:52)
Hmm. No, but in life it is, it's, it's like

a, it's an onion that will never be unraveled fully. Cause you can never get to the center of it and have an either right or wrong answer with it. but I found the quote cause, as well as says, sad to hear Ozzie died today. When I was in high school, I discovered Sabbath war pigs was terrifying and mesmerizing at the same time. that's.

Sebastian (06:02)
Yeah.

Okay, go for it

Michael (06:19)
Literally exactly that song was just was that was the first Sabbath song that I really fell in love with. Um, it was Ozzy's voice that took me away to a dark universe, a great escape. when the, then when the Blizzard of Oz record came out, was instantly a fan. Randy, Randy Rose was an influence on me to play lead guitar. Luckily I got to play the song immortal on the last record. Thanks for the music and blah, blah. Um, but yeah, I just, this is funny how like when you're a teenager and you discover black Sabbath.

And it's like so scary and you see the mystique and you know, cause when I, our age, like when we've discovered Sabbath and Aussie or vice versa or whatever.

Sebastian (06:52)
Yeah.

Well, if I recall listening to Black Sabbath at such a young age, it was almost like a forbidden fruit syndrome, right? Because it's like, I'm not supposed to be listening to this because this is evil and dark, but I kind of like it. And I was just like, I really like it. Yeah, so I was so into it because I was like, I'm listening to something I'm not supposed to be listening to. I don't think my parents would approve, but I really like it.

Michael (07:06)
Mm-hmm.

Right? Yeah. And your parents like, why are you listening to that devil music? Yeah. Well, there's that too. It's the whole parent aspect.

Yep. No. Or

you get your Walkman, you put your headphones in, you listen to your Sabbath tape or whatever, or they're not home and you can crank it. That's what I had to do. When they weren't home, I cranked the Sabbath.

Sebastian (07:26)
So, yes. Yeah.

You know, it's

it's interesting too, because I after after they recorded 13, they did it because Tony Naomi was degenerating in health as well. I would have bet my house that Tony Naomi was the first one to go. Because you just feel like Aussie's just not able to die. He's just put his body through so much.

Michael (07:45)
Mm-hmm.

going to live forever. Yeah, no, he would. Well, it's like the Keith Richards,

the Keith Richards thing, right? He was just in that pickled kind of state, even though somehow.

Sebastian (08:02)
I'm convinced he's a robot that's been taken or Keith Rich has been taken over by a robot like decades ago. And he's just a cyborg at this point. Because how's this the amount that guy smoked in his life? How is he still alive? I don't understand. Yeah.

Michael (08:08)
Yeah, he's, ⁓ he's, he's.

Yeah, with all the other that and all the drink and the drugs and you

name it, right? But yeah, no, it's even when we saw Aussie the first time and was that 90 osmosis, whatever that was 95, four, five.

Sebastian (08:27)
late

mid to late nineties, I think. Yeah.

Michael (08:30)
Yeah.

And then he, cause he, he came and he was sick and he could only do a couple of songs. And then he came back and honored, honored the tickets, which, know, 95 % of bands would be like, yeah, just get a refund. We, we don't care. But he, yeah, but he came back and did it he still wasn't in very good shape. Like he, he was still not that well and he came and did it and he sung his heart out and it was awesome. Like it was like, holy crap. The dude just like he's just.

Sebastian (08:45)
We'll get you on the next tour. That's what they'll say, right? Yeah.

Michael (09:00)
a man, just loves the stage. He just loves being in front of people and

Sebastian (09:04)
Yeah, he's an incredibly gifted front man. Like he knows he has a presence. He has his own style. He's got a singing style that's very obviously Ozzy Osbourne. Is he the greatest singer? No. Is he even in the top 10 in terms of technical ability in the metal world? I don't think so. People may argue with me with that, but he has a very, like you hear an Ozzy song, you're like, yeah, it's Ozzy.

Michael (09:07)
sure.

Sebastian (09:30)
Like he's got such a unique voice. So.

Michael (09:32)
Yeah. Even

if you don't hear the rest of the stuff, you know, it's Ozzy without a doubt. Um, but also Metallica put out a, uh, a statement today too. Um, uh, says here, it's impossible to put into words what Ozzy Osborne has meant to Metallica. Hero icon, pioneer, inspiration, mentor, and most of all friend are a few that came to mind. Ozzy and Sharon believed in us and transformed our lives and careers, which is very true. Like they didn't have to.

Sebastian (09:38)
Yeah.

They absolutely

did that for them.

Michael (10:01)
They didn't have to take Metallica

out in the ultimate center. They do. They really did not have to do that. And they did. And I just was crazy. He cell. says he taught us how to play in the big leagues while at the same time being warm, welcoming, engaging, and all around brilliant. So there's a little more. Right. So it's, it's pretty crazy, but I did, I'm just going to change the subject for one second. There was a quote.

Sebastian (10:07)
Yeah.

That's huge words, Yeah.

Is this the Metallica

News? I have Metallica News by the way. Okay.

Michael (10:26)
Oh no, this was just a quote that

apparently Metallica played a few shows at the Rolling Stones back in like 2005. And the band was told when Mick Jagger enters the room, you do not make eye contact or talk to Mick.

Sebastian (10:39)
This is still Sylvester Stallone syndrome too. Like you're not supposed to look at Sylvester Stallone unless he's directly speaking at you. Come on.

Michael (10:42)
Right? Yeah. So, and then I guess the band was like, ⁓

okay, come on, man. So I guess now Metallica makes a point that any opening band they have, they make them feel welcome and at home and they go, they greet them, shake their hands, look them in the eye, give them the whole like a treat them like humans as opposed to Nope. Yeah. Right.

Sebastian (11:02)
You're giving back. You're giving

back because a band gave you the shot and treated you like human beings and welcomed you into their circle and into their family. And so you give that back to the bands now coming up, right? For sure you do, yeah. So to go further on that, so you heard, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, you might be. The Tomorrowland stage is just like an EDM festival burned down.

Michael (11:09)
Yeah, right?

Yes, exactly. You have to. That's just the way it's supposed to be. Anyways, you got my t- Yes?

my nappy.

yeah,

I heard it burned down.

Sebastian (11:31)
So what did Metallica do? They had their European stage in Belgium. So they lent Tomorrowland their stage. So they drove it over while they didn't personally, but they, they facilitated that. Yeah. So they res Metallica rescued the Tomorrowland festival. Yeah. Well, they're not using it. It's just sitting in a warehouse in Belgium. they're, like, yeah, go use it and go rebuild the stage with our stuff and save the festival. So.

Michael (11:38)
wow.

I think they did. They all got in the semis and they drove it all over themselves.

Wow, that's crazy. That is awesome.

Yeah. Holy. That's insane.

Sebastian (12:00)
just paying it forward or giving back to the music community. Yeah.

Michael (12:02)
It's just, it's, it's also insane

to have that kind of like clout and power.

Sebastian (12:06)
Could you

imagine in the 80s and 90s, this wouldn't have happened, this mixing of styles. Like you would have been like, no, this is not my circle, like we're metal and they're EDM, you guys figure it out. Yeah.

Michael (12:13)
Yeah, sorry. EDM you guys can, you can do

this, right? That's kind of how it was, but holy God. Cause it's funny. I saw those headlines and I'm like, I'm like, okay. I didn't know what a Tomorrowland was. I honestly thought it was the old ride at Disneyland, but I was like, no, I don't think that's.

Sebastian (12:19)
Yeah, so

No, it's a big music raver festival and they definitely pay a hefty price. Like I think Paris Hilton was a DJ on that set. Apparently she DJs and Idris Alba I think was also DJing, which is weird, but they have like all the big names like Tiesto and Calvin Harris. I don't know if they were there this year, but you know, all the big EDM names usually go in. David Guetta, like all of those guys. Well, I guess one of those is not, I don't think Calvin Harris is alive anymore. he? Which one of them?

Michael (12:39)
Really?

Okay. Yeah, I've heard, yeah, okay. All those big names, interesting.

wow.

I,

hey man, you're the EDM guy, I don't know anything. I know who Tiesto is, that's all, that's as far as goes for me.

Sebastian (12:59)
Don't quote me on that.

Which one? This is going to bother me. Anyways.

Michael (13:06)
One of them, some

like EDM guy, and he died a years ago, his name. Like a Swedish guy or something.

Sebastian (13:10)
Yes, and I can't remember who it is. It's not Calvin Harris. yeah.

Michael (13:16)
Yeah, no, wasn't, was a, it was a stranger name. wasn't the Harris guy you're talking about. It some, was somebody else. It was just like a one name guy. We'll figure it out. but yeah, no, that's so cool that just, or even to have you got a stage. understand that a band that big is going to have a stage here, Europe. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. A couple of years ago.

Sebastian (13:23)
Well, we'll figure it out.

It was Avicii. Avicii in 2018, I believe.

Yeah, 28, man. What the?

Michael (13:44)
Not too young.

How did he, uh, I think he was sick, wasn't he? I don't know. I don't think he killed himself or overdose or anything.

Sebastian (13:47)
I don't know, so... but... No,

I don't think so either.

No cause of death was announced and they said they wouldn't. Yeah. But anyways, there's a lot of death talk today.

Michael (13:56)
Anyways, it is a lot of death talk.

Um, cause we were originally, we were going to talk about Joe Bonamassa, but we're not doing that today. Cause we just wanted to spend 15 or 20 talking about talking about the man, the myth. It's funny. Cause I know you probably had the CD as well. Uh, we sold our soul for rock and roll that, uh, the Sabbath CD was just basically the greatest hits. It was like the first four records and that's it. And it was just, I don't know. can't remember when I got it, how I got it.

Sebastian (14:04)
No, this makes sense.

Yeah.

Michael (14:24)
why I got it. Oh, you probably, I probably got it because of you, but, uh, it was actually like, we're talking about learning how to play songs. I saw like, cut my teeth more pegs, iron man, fairies wear boots, you know, uh, sweet leaf, all those fun songs to play on guitar. you don't realize that they're tuned to C sharp. Wow. I didn't back in the day, I, cause I could play them. You could, cause there was like, the tab was like for standard tuning. And I'm like, this isn't, this isn't right. Something's

Sebastian (14:28)
problem.

⁓ man tab back

in the day when we were learning was always off. It was always wrong. There's actually a YouTube channel of a guitarist that actually takes real like the worst tablature and plays it exactly the way it's written and then like compares it and tells you why this is wrong. I can't remember what the name of it is but it's hilarious because he's like, yeah, this is so off. So

Michael (14:55)
⁓ so bad. was so bad. And I'm like, what?

That's funny.

That is funny.

Sebastian (15:18)
What's the first, like what's your first memories of Ozzy? Like was it with Black Sabbath or was it with Ozzy by himself?

Michael (15:23)
I think it was

Aussie

Sebastian (15:28)
Yeah, that would have been

that would have fit because the 80s was all about Aussie.

Michael (15:31)
was all about Aussie and then 91, because No More Tears was up in everybody's business in 91. It was everywhere, right?

Sebastian (15:40)
Well, even before that, much music, is the Canadian version of MTV, more or less, but they weren't, they didn't do shows like MTV does, like MTV went to do like Jackass, you know, later on they did a lot of like TV shows. Yes.

Michael (15:44)
Yes.

Yeah, well, but back in the eighties and early nineties, it was basically still

all it was just music videos all day long.

Sebastian (15:58)
Do you remember what the metal half hour was called on? So that's the first time I ever saw an Ozzy song was Miracle Man on that. And then before that, was, I mean, we did talk about this, but before that it was, the ultimate sin was the first Ozzy song I ever heard. And I can't remember if I listened to Black Sabbath first or Ozzy second, but.

Michael (16:02)
The Power 30,

But yeah.

Yeah, like I'm positive it was Ozzy first, like, you know, with crazy train. And I like, I, I fell in love with Mr. Crowley so fast. Cause it was just kind of evil sounding in the Oregon.

Sebastian (16:25)
Maybe. Yeah.

It's

gotta be one of the top five solos of all time in all of metal music. Like that solo is so good.

Michael (16:34)
totally. In all of, in all of metal

life. But it's funny, I was listening to, live and loud today just because so he just, he was so good live. Just, just happy to be there and just.

Sebastian (16:48)
Let me see your cigarette light has.

Michael (16:52)
Yeah. Right. It's just

that, that thing. it's actually, kind of want to learn how the ultimate sound on guitar now. It seems like, yeah. Yeah, it does. And cause most Aussie songs are, oh yeah, it is. Yeah. It's dropped. It's dropped D at least anyway. Um, but a lot of like the Randy Aussie stuff, like there was so much going on. Like it just, there wasn't room for groove. If you know what I mean? Like as he was such a savant on the guitar, he had just, he could do it.

Sebastian (16:58)
It's groovy, man. It's got such a groovy beat to it.

And I'm pretty sure it's down tuned too. Yeah.

Yeah.

Michael (17:20)
900 different guitar parts at the same time and then

Sebastian (17:22)
Yeah, he was incredible. So good.

Michael (17:24)
He was,

he was, yeah, absolutely. But, yeah, like I bought no more tears, you know, 30, whatever years, thousand years ago. And then it just sort of spiraled backwards. then like, knew of Sabbath, but I wasn't, like the biggest fan. So I started playing guitar and then I realized, my God, like I can play most, most of this stuff. Cause it's not, it gets not.

terribly complicated is the building blocks of metal. But that's another thing, like the dude invented a genre of music.

Sebastian (17:54)
Yeah, they did. They absolutely did.

Michael (17:54)
like along with the three other guys in the band, but

he is the voice of metal. they invented heavy metal, doom metal, stoner metal, whatever, all the metals. it's no Sabbath. We don't get any of the stuff that we love.

Sebastian (18:08)
It's kind of amazing the quality of the guitarist that has blessed Ozzy Osbourne in his musical career. Like Tony Iommi, Jakey Lee, Joe Holmes, Zach Wilde, Randy Rhoades.

Michael (18:16)
You are, ⁓

Sebastian (18:22)
Like, come on, man.

Michael (18:22)
Crazy. then when, after

Randy died, which I found this out the other, I don't know, last week or something, they had three days. They wanted to keep the tour going. They had three days off. They hired Brad Gillis to learn the set in three days. And the dude came out and shredded, shredded the, I just sounded like that old guy from Family Guy there for a second. I had that little whistle in my voice. whatever. It's a good character. but yeah, just.

Sebastian (18:35)
Yeah.

It's a good character.

Michael (18:47)
Cause Ozzy knew how to find a good guitar player and he's always good at finding, well, obviously after Sabbath, he was good at finding young guitar players that were just out there, right? Like, you know, Randy.

Sebastian (18:57)
Yeah,

but I mean, who would want to play for Ozzy as a fledgling virtuoso guitarist? It will make your career. Like it made Zach's career, made for sure.

Michael (19:04)
Absolutely. Yep.

Well, I think Zach would still be a, he'd just be like a, like, I don't even know if we'd know who Black Label Society is. Like, do you think, not without Ozzy's, you know, his time in the Ozzy band.

Sebastian (19:17)
Not without Ozzy Osbourne. No.

But he wanted to do his own thing, which makes sense. He wanted to branch out and try different types of music, right? He did the acoustic album. He did pride and glory, which is like a Southern rock band. Yeah. And then.

Michael (19:26)
Sure. Yeah.

Yeah. ⁓ pride and glory is so good. I wish you'd make another one. really do. Put the black labels to put the chug

chug away. Let's get some Southern rock going on in here.

Sebastian (19:38)
I would be down for Zach while doing like a throwback album where it was like a pride and glory album or like another acoustic album like Book of Shadows. Yeah.

Michael (19:44)
Yeah, cause he did the book of shadows too. And then maybe he

could do a pride and glory too. Why not? Let's do this. I'll get ahold of them. I'll, I'll write them a letter. He'll respond. He'll, yeah, he'll respond. Right. I'll write him an old school letter in my, in my chicken scratch printing.

Sebastian (19:49)
Yeah.

Make it happen, Mike. I believe in you. Yeah.

There's also a, also a, a little lesser known fact, I think for most people in the metal world that Ozzy Metallica swap bassist. Cause Rob Trujillo, which is Metallica's bassist used to be Ozzy's bassist and he came to Metallica and then Ozzy picked up Jason Neustad for a bit, a bit of time. I mean, he didn't stay alone. Yeah. I think so. Yeah.

Michael (20:11)
They said they did.

That's right.

Yeah, for like six months and for whatever. Yeah. Just to finish the, I think to finish the tour that they were on that when Rob left.

Sebastian (20:29)
So that's fascinating to me.

Michael (20:32)
And I,

and I, I don't know if I could be getting my facts wrong, but I think Rob asked Ozzy if it was okay if he went and auditioned and Ozzy's like, dude, go. Yeah, this you have to go. You have to try because he's the only guy that could fit.

Sebastian (20:39)
This is your, yeah, you'd fit in.

Dude,

that was such a fascinating thing to watch in the some kind of monster the the auditions for the new bassist. Because as soon as Rob Trujillo came in and you see like the fly on the wall of watching Metallica talk about him, they were just like, I, know, the one thing that I always remember is Lars saying, it hasn't been plain played that way. They're talking about battery. It hasn't been played that way since Cliff.

Michael (21:06)
Yeah.

Yeah. Which is crazy. Yeah.

Sebastian (21:09)
Right. Which is

great. Like, see, because this guy is flawless. Like it's not a struggle at all. So, um, yeah, it's, it's, it's a sad day. Uh, I, Mike is right. I, I blood sadder than I feel like I was going to be because I was prepared for it. I think, I think the reason we're so sad is that we just so, so recently reconnected with Ozzy in that whole realm.

Michael (21:20)
It is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Cause I've been listening to like last two weeks. There's been a lot of Ozzy, a lot of Sabbath, a lot of, yeah. Right. And this has been a lot of thoughts of like the past of me listening to all that music and loving it and why I fell in love with it in the first place.

Sebastian (21:36)
Like we saw the concert. Yes. We watched the whole 10 hour concert.

man a lot of those songs now when I look back on the performance for that concert jay's hit differently like when I when I watch clips of mama I'm coming home it's just like oh man like oh man you should see Zach during that he almost broke down he couldn't sing properly and he was making mistakes on guitar and he was just he was doing everything that he could just to hold it together so yeah

Michael (22:01)
I'm not, I'm not even going to watch that. don't, I'm good. Like I was, I was teary eyed when it was, when it was going on live. Yeah. No.

Yeah. It was so emotional. but,

but I do have young blood changes basically on repeat now. my God. It's that dude is that version is just awesome. Just all the way around with a sleep token too on, on drums, being subtle and, Nuno being incredibly subtle, like more than word subtle, just like with all the little, little fills, just the color he's spread into that song.

Sebastian (22:22)
So good.

Yeah, there's a there's a TikTok I watched when Nuno Bendacourt was talking about Youngblood and he's like this kid man. He's like I was looking over at him while I was playing guitar while he was when we're doing changes and he would have the mic like four feet away from his mouth and he was like yelling into it. I'm like this guy's pipes are insane like he can belt it. So he was impressed with these just as vocal ability to just project such a big voice.

Michael (22:54)
Yeah.

Yeah, dude can sing. Yeah.

Sebastian (23:09)
So.

Michael (23:10)
Now he just needs to put out some music that can afford almost 48 year old guy can relate to.

Sebastian (23:15)
Yeah. Yeah,

he is a bit of a I don't want to say a hooligan, but he reminds me of like a like a English hooligan, but he's a nice he's apparently such a nice guy. He created a festival called Blood, Bloodfest, I think. And because he was sick and tired of music festivals being so egregiously overpriced that most people can't afford to go. So he made a festival of his own that's more affordable.

Michael (23:24)
Yeah.

Really.

⁓ good for him. That's awesome.

Sebastian (23:40)
to the masses, so to speak.

Yeah. And by bloodfests, it's spelled B-L-U-D.

Michael (23:47)
⁓

well, without a doubt it is. Oops. Yeah. So I think that's, I think that's that we love Ozzy. ⁓ You know, even the opening bit to Black Sabbath, you know, with the whole that what is this that stands before me? It's that line just forever sticks in my head. I know he didn't write it. He he did the he's a melody guy and geezer with the lyrics. But my God, I just just.

Sebastian (23:58)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Michael (24:15)
He was just, he was amazing. And now he's, he's, he's at peace and then we can all be happy that he's at peace. I think that's the biggest thing.

Sebastian (24:23)
You will so desperately,

desperately be missed, Ozzie.

Michael (24:27)
Yeah, I had this like deep sentiment that I thought of earlier, but I didn't write it down.

Sebastian (24:33)
It'll come back to you at like four in the morning. I should do that.

Michael (24:35)
They will all wake up tomorrow back. yeah. Right. That's what I was going to say. It was actually, it was really,

like, it was really good. And I was like, I should really like record that into my phone or something. And then I just didn't. That's okay. Moment of brilliance. It's gone like a flash. Right.

Sebastian (24:46)
That's okay.

But

yeah, we love you, Ozzy. Thank you for your music. Thank you for your gift to the world of metal and music. And yeah, you're you're one crazy mofo as the history dictates by your actions. But we love you all the same. You gave us music. God bless you, Ozzy Alvorn. Yeah.

Michael (24:53)
Yeah.

Yeah, and. ⁓

Yes. And I don't say these words ever in my life, but God bless you Ozzy, was born. So that's,

that's it for this week. We'll be back next week with, you know, stuff.

Sebastian (25:16)
See ya.